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Georgia Southern University - Savannah Science Museum Herpetology Collection

Specimen Records: 25,098
Media Records: 403
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-06-14

The collection contains approximately 35,000 specimens of reptiles and amphibians. Most of the material is from southern Georgia, although some collections from other areas in the southeast are included. The collection contains representation over 95% of Georgia's herpetofauna and is the second largest collection in the state. Specimen data is digitized (Specify 6.4), and is available via VertNet and/or upon request. Contact Lance McBrayer for more information, loans, data requests, and/or a visit.

Contacts

Name Lance McBrayer
RoleAssociate Professor
Emaillancemcbrayer@georgiasouthern.edu
Name Lance McBrayer
RoleAssociate Professor
Emaillancemcbrayer@georgiasouthern.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Lance McBrayer
RoleAssociate Professor & Curator
Emaillancemcbrayer@georgiasouthern.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i25031
99.733
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i25031
99.733
dwc_taxonid_added  i25031
99.733
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i25031
99.733
gbif_canonicalname_added  i25031
99.733
gbif_genericname_added  i25031
99.733
gbif_taxon_corrected  i25031
99.733
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i24948
99.402
gbif_vernacularname_added  i24800
98.813
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i24731
98.538
gbif_reference_added  i24572
97.904
dwc_multimedia_added  i21948
87.449
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i16293
64.918
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i13727
54.694
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i2541
10.124
taxon_match_failed  i2020
8.048
dwc_genus_replaced  i1576
6.279
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i903
3.598
geopoint_datum_error  i775
3.088
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i438
1.745
rev_geocode_mismatch  i206
0.821
rev_geocode_corrected  i204
0.813
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i202
0.805
geopoint_low_precision  i51
0.203
rev_geocode_eez  i8
0.032
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i2
0.008
dwc_family_replaced  i1
0.004
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.004
rev_geocode_failure  i1
0.004
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